Garment-supporter.



No. 833,928. PATENTED 001223, 1906.

1 I. HOUSEL. GARMENT SUPPORTER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 21, 1906.

. A mom-151$ UNITED STATES? PATENT OFFICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patentedet23', 1906.

Application filed March 21, 1906. Serial No. 307,244.

Toall whom it may concern/.-

Be it known that I, IOL'A HOUSEL, a citizen of the United States, residin at Peru, in the county of Chautauqua and, tate of Kansas, have invented a new and useful Garment- Supporter, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to garment-s11 ports and has for its object to improve t e construction and increase the efficiency of devices of this character.

. With these and other objects in view,

which will appear as the nature of the inven tion is better understood, the invention con- .sists in certain novel features of construction as hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and in which corresponding parts are denoted by ike designating characters, is illustrated the preferred form of the embodiment of the invention capable of carrying the same into practical operation. e

, Figure 1 is a rear elevation of the improved device applied. Fig. 2 is a side elevation, partly in section, of the improved device with the parts partly separated to illustrate the operation. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the device with the members se arated. Fig. 4 is a perspective vie'w'of one of t e members detached.

The improved-device comprises a bar 10, having transverse slots 1 1 12 at the ends, the slot 12 having a lateral recess 22 communi cating therewith, a bar 13, having a transverse slot 14 at one end and a T-head 15 at the other end, with anoffset' 1.6 at the juncture of the T-head and bar, a flexible element 17, preferably endless, threaded through the slots Hand 14, a loop 18, movably engaging the fiexible element, and a webbing-support,

em 'prefera of elastic material and .adjustable as b a buckle 20. a

' T e T-head portion of the bar 13 is shorter than the slot 12 of the bar 10. and is ada ted to be passed therethrough, as shown in igs.

1 and 2, with the offset 16bearing in the recess 22 to complete the union with the garment, (indicated at 21.) v

In operating the device the portion of the I bar 10 having the slot 12 and recess 22 is placed outside the garment to be held and the T-head portion 15 of the arm 13 inserted beneath the garment and thrust through the. .slot 12 of. the bar 10 and with the offset 16.

into the recess 22, carrying the portion of the garment represented at 21, which for the time being extends thereover, with it through the slot 12 and into the recess, as represented in Figs. 1 and 2. Then as the strain-is .applied to'the webbing member 19 the loop 18 draws the flexible element 17 with it and moves the upper ends of the two bars wand 13 toward each other and firmly compressesv the en aged portion of the garment and effectual ly holds it a ainst displacement. this means the harder the strain the stronger the grip of the parts and without danger of rending the garment.

The webbin element 17 bein endless and running loose y through the oops of the clamp members and the webbing member 19 being slidably disposed by its loop 18 upon the member 17, the parts will yield to the strains and automatically adapt themselves to the garment to which they are attached, and thus firmlv grip the same, no matter how thick or thin the same may-be.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is A garment-support comprising a bar hav- 1 member slidably coupled to said endless flexible element.

In testimony, that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aflixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

y IOLA HoUsEL.

Witnesses:

Enw. BENNETT, J. A. HOUSEL. 

